The New Ghostwire: Tokyo Update Is Great
This week, Ghostwire: Tokyo finally reached the end of its PS5 exclusivity period and launched for Xbox Series consoles. The game also got a surprisingly big free update on all platforms called Spider’s Thread, adding new story content, a new rogue-lite game mode, plenty of quality of life tweaks, achievement updates — and new collectible capsule toys that add props for use in photo mode.
It’s this last addition, barely mentioned in the official patch notes as “photo mode improvements,” that has really grabbed me. You can now find little capsule toy machines littered throughout Ghostwire’s detailed city, and for 500 “Meika” (the in-game currency) you can try your hand at getting a unique toy through a random draw process.
This sort of goofy collectible capsule toy side content exists in tons of other games — but where most other titles would be content to give you a 3D model you could view in a menu or on an in-game shelf, Ghostwire’s developers at Tango Gameworks went one step further.
The new capsule toys here do indeed unlock 3D models based on existing game artwork, but you can then use those models inside your photo mode photos. You can place up to four of them into a scene at once, and adjust their…
